Sun Spot Bowling Ball
Taken yesterday afternoon. Sunspot 794 is the lower left, the rightmost is 792 and center top is 795. They are all relatively well behaved and no aurora are expected from them.
Taken yesterday afternoon. Sunspot 794 is the lower left, the rightmost is 792 and center top is 795. They are all relatively well behaved and no aurora are expected from them.
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Good that no CMEs (Coronal Mass Ejections, the solar eruptions that, when reaching Earth cause auroras) are expected by these spots, because every times it happens the images from the Spitzer Space Telescope for which I am working get trashed for a couple of days. It has already happened two times since the beginning of the mission, two years ago. And we are going towards the Solar minimum!
That's a good point, I'd never considered what they would do to the observation satellites.
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/technology/index.shtml
That's a pretty cool (literally) telescope. What are you looking at studying?